Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe
Tenth to Eleventh Centuries
9786155225208
418 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.Author Bio
Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar is lecturer at the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Department of Medieval History of Central European University.
Marina Miladinov is lecturer of Church history and Latin at the Theological Faculty “Matthias Flacius Illyricus” in Zagreb. She is also one of the founding members and president of Hagiotheca—Croatian Hagiography Society and a free-lance translator in the fields of religious studies, arts, and humanities. Her interests reside in hagiography and the Reformation critique of the veneration of saints.
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.
